Friday, December 14, 2012

RIGHT TO WORK got its start in Texas in the early 1940's. It's the malignant creation of a particularly odious American, Vance Muse. According to Mark Ames at Not Safe For Work Corporation, in an article "You Hate "Right To Work" Laws More Than You Know. Here's Why", Vance Muse was quite a piece of work. Click on the link to get a fascinating explanation of the rise of the fascist Right in America.

Vance Muse was a racist political operative and lobbyist from the state of
Texas — the native habitat for all America’s vermin —as Satanically vile as
"Turd Blossom" Rove, a racist smear-peddler like Andrew Breitbart, only without
Breitbart’s degenerate heart and fondness for blow.

Here is a description of Vance Muse, creator of the "right to work" movement,
from a book by an old celebrated journalist, Stetson Kennedy, the reporter who
famously went undercover inside the KKK and wrote a tell-all in the 40’s:

"The man Muse is quite a character. He is six foot four, wears a ten-gallon
hat, but generally reserves his cowboy boots for trips Nawth. Now over fifty
[this is published in 1946—M.A.], Muse has been professionally engaged in
reactionary enterprises for more than a quarter of a century."

Among Vance Muse’s "reactionary enterprises": He lobbied against women’s
suffrage, against the child-labor amendment, against the 8-hour workday, and in
1936, Muse engineered the first split in the South’s Democratic Party by peeling
off the segregationists and racists from the New Deal party, a political
maneuver that eventually led to Strom Thurmond, George Wallace, and at last a
Republican right-wing takeover of the South, and with it, the collapse of the
old New Deal coalition. Which worked out fine for Vance Muse, since he was a
covert Republican himself, serving "for years" as the Republican Party state
treasurer in Texas.

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To understand why Fred Koch and the Bircher
libertarians hated Ike so much, imagine today a Republican like
Eisenhower who raised the top marginal tax rate to 91%, who poured
massive government investments into building roads and schools, who publicly
declared his support for Social Security and denounced any Republican who
opposed it. Is it any wonder that the Right has a problem with Obama?

2 comments:

It is difficult to even imagine a time like the 1950's when the US actually had two GOOD men Adalai Stevenson and Ike running for preznit at the same time.

You forgot to mention Rick Perry and Tom "the Bugman" Delay when you were providing examples of Texan vermin.

The best thing that could happen to the U.S. would be for Texas to secede and take Alabama, Mississippi and the rest of the Red Welfare Client States with them. This time hopefully their would be a President in D.C. smart enough to just let them go and wither away on their own or be taken over by Mexico.

If Teabagxas left the Union they would insist on their share of the Nuclear Arsenal, which on a population basis would be 409 nukes. Now they should have to take their share of the National Debt too which, similarly based on their population would be about $1.12 trillion.